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lifthrasiir on Oct 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you...

To be exact, Hunminjeongeum (훈민정음) is what the King Sejong actually created. It is, in addition to the stated goal, thought to be the ultimate linguistic geekery by the King because one of the first books printed in Hunminjeongeum was Dongguk Jeongun [1], which set out to standardize the "orthodox" Chinese pronunciation in Korea. As always that didn't go well; the book does tell a lot about the Middle Korean despite of its failure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongguk_Jeongun

interestica on Oct 13, 2020 [–]

Thank you for this! The wiki page I linked to definitely doesn't cover this aspect well (specifically, Hunminjeongeum) and I learned something new.

Of relevance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunminjeongeum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunminjeongeum_Haerye

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